ParticleTools: Release 2.0 has taken the ParticleTools out of the public API while it is being re-engineered.

Chombo also includes test programs and some examples of how to do calculations on block-structured, adaptively refined meshes. The examples include a cell-centered Poisson solver, several variations on a node-centered elliptic solver, a Helmholtz equation solver, a couple implementations of a Godunov method for gas dynamics, a simple wave equation solver and some basic I/O code.

Finally Chombo includes a system for writing dimension-independent FORTRAN which we call "Chombo Fortran". Fortran subroutines are used for the most compute-intensive parts of Chombo applications because they produce faster results.

The Examples that Chombo provides use finite differences to discretize partial differential equations on block-structured, adaptively refined grids using published algorithms. AMRGodunovUnsplit follows the algorithm developed by Berger and Colella to solve shock hydrodynamics problems on these grids using AMRTimeDependent to manage subcycling in time and other data choreography issues. One implements a operator splitting algorithm and the other implements a unsplit algorithm. The Poisson and Helmholtz examples follow the algorithm used by Martin and Cartwright with AMRElliptic doing the data choreography. Both AMRTimeDependent and AMRElliptic are flexibly designed. In principle, any time-dependent adaptive problem with similar time-step constraints to gas dynamics can be solved using AMRTimeDependent. Any purely elliptic problem on block-structured adaptive meshes can be solved using AMRElliptic.

API Reference

Design Docs

The current version of the Chombo Design Doc is a fairly comprehensive overview of the layers and classes in Chombo.

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